I see, thanks. On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Hubert Feyrer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote: >> >> I experiment with NetBSD boot stuff for i386. Main question is what is >> boot-big.fs and how does it different from bootxx_cd9660? >> With this 'mkisofs -o test1.iso -b bootxx_cd9660 -no-emul-boot -c >> boot.catalog -l -J -R -allow-leading-dots ./cdreleasefiles/' and in >> cdreleasefiles contains: >> boot boot.cfg bootxx_cd9660 modules >> I'm able to boot. Though boot doesn't read boot.cfg, while loads a >> kernel from modules without issues (I have to go to prompt). >> >> When I use boot-big.fs instead I get a nice colorful useless picture >> on booting. Without "-no-emul-boot" (like in manual) I fail to create >> an image: Size of boot image is 7200 sectors -> genisoimage: Error - >> boot image 'cdreleasefiles/boot-big.fs' has not an allowable size. > > > boot-big.fs is a complete 2.88MB floppy image that has everything to boot > netbsd. > > bootxx_cd9660 is just a bootloader for the ISO 9660 format. > > > - Hubert
-- Evgeniy
